'It was a lonely disease. People who got sick, no one came to visit them. They were alone. And if they died, they usually died alone. They were buried … and that's it.“ In Freetown, I spoke to Bimbola Carol. Like others who had escaped the country's civil war, he had been part of an idealistic tide that returned after peace in 2002. We first met five years ago in Freetown when he was engaged in the country's nascent tourism industry. It's easy to forget that in the 1970s the Freetown Peninsula's exceptional beaches featured in glossy brochures alongside Gambia. Rumours that the Bounty bar's famous ad was filmed at River Number Two Beach persist....
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